Quotes About Truth

the best poems are those in which the author avoids concealment and obfuscation, and the truth of that person, eccentric, vulnerable, and brilliant, bears itself out in a sound heretofore unheard.

paraphrase Confucius, real knowledge is finding out the depths of one's own ignorance.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

Attach yourself to truth, not to me. For I may die before you, but the truth will accompany you to your death.

Feelings which flourish on illusions, and sicken and die on realities, aren't worth considering.

History is full of stories that aren't actually true. —LORD CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON

The story this book tells is about the people who made our world; then the people who realized there might be a problem; then the people who lied about that problem.

But if such things were common, then would we not know about them?" "They happen to women," Miss Feldstein says wearily. "And as we have just witnessed, when a woman makes a claim about her own body, men may find it convenient to disbelieve her.

What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she was 16, or the foolish attraction she'd felt. Theirs had been a true love. Forged and built and earned.

believe you have struck upon the problems of conspiracies. There are men who wish to keep you from uncovering the truth about this particular matter, but there are others who are only privately villainous and have their own little truths to hide. When you confront a conspiracy it becomes monstrous hard to distinguish between wretched villainy and ordinary, common lies.

Mohamadans are certainly famous as liars, and the falsehood of Mohamad has been transmitted to his followers in a measure unknown in other religions.

Two wretched Moslems asserted "that the firing was done by the people of the English;" I asked one of them why he lied so, and he could utter no excuse: no other falsehood came to his aid as he stood abashed, before me, and so telling him not to tell palpable falsehoods, I left him gaping.

It shows us that it is never wise to turn an entirely deaf ear when the report of a disaster comes to hand, because in this instance the main facts were conveyed across country, striking the great arterial caravan route at Unyanyembé, and getting at once into a channel that would ensure the intelligence reaching Zanzibar. On the other hand, false reports never lag on their journey:—how often has Livingstone been killed in former years!

15th June, 1872.—Lewalé doubts Sangara on account of having brought no letters. Nothing can be believed in this land unless it is in black and white, and but little even then; the most circumstantial details are often mere figments of the brain. The one half one hears may safely be called false, and the other half doubtful or not proven.

My own people persuaded the Bagenya not to sell a canoe: Hassani knows it all, but swears that he did not join in the slander, and even points up to Heaven in attestation of innocence of all, even of Manilla's foray. Mohamadans are certainly famous as liars, and the falsehood of Mohamad has been transmitted to his followers in a measure unknown in other religions.

We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

Jesus is the only one who can show us without distortion the way to live and the truth to live by which lead us to life.

Confess what you have done... Do not compound your sin by denying it.

Or does not knowing make him free?

It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.